representation

a follow-up to io - charlie - metaphor Great… this is fun! – Charlie (Charlie Munford @) Yes it is! –i’m enjoying this process! intro Overall, yes I can accept your definition of metaphor as a subset of all arbitrarily produced abstractions…the abstractions that say something important or useful for minds aiming to understand the world. But I think I disagree that there is anything universal about such truths, simply because I think minds are almost infinitely diverse, all the way down to true minds in single cells (and there are single-celled organisms, gut microbiota, in our minds)....

what are we studying when we are doing mathematics? map and territory Consider map and territory 1 2: Science interprets territory, formally, to compose representational maps Engineering composes (or shapes) territory, by applying map to circumstances, through action Mathematics, central to science and engineering, formalises cartography and navigation of map and territory, and more: mathematics charts the form and characteristics 3 of the nexus 4 between map and territory – fundamentals of constraint, structure and behaviour 5, of interpretation, representation, and cognition 6 alignment Consider that:...

active draft: #tbc The moment we start persisting representation, and incrementally accruing detail, we need to care about coherence, sameness, and operational efficiency. Detect Persist Accrue Evaluate Consider the difference between a log-file, and a database. “note: pointing at structured data, rather than index 1” log file Log files are simplest persistence Partial Doesn’t consolidate Plural representation Can’t accrue and relate Which instance to augment? How to search efficiently?...

De-duplication refers to a pattern of behaviour which evolved to address plural enumeration, a problem innate to map. “plural enumeration refers to an inherent side-effect of persisted interpreted representation – many maps can refer to the same territory – and without reconciliation, persisted “plurally enumerated” representations are operationally untenable” “consider the difference between a log file, and a database (see: on persisted representation)” De-duplication conditionally validates, corrects, consolidates, and optimises, plurally enumerated persisted representations – across all scopes of map (see: map lifecycle)...